OY GEVALT: British
author and Hitler apologist David
Irving is a man with a lot of
chutzpah, a man in denial about his own
denial.

Irving
has penned numerous
books downplaying the scope of
genocide under Hitler's rule, then sued
American author Deborah Lipstadt
after she called him a Holocaust denier.
And while he lost that libel suit in
England -- where the burden of proof rests
with the defendant -- he hasn't backed
down from his views.

And now the man who once said that
"More women died in the back seat of
Edward Kennedy's car at
Chappaquiddick than ever died in the gas
chamber in Auschwitz" is heading for
Aurora [suburb
of Denver, Colorado]. As part
of a national speaking tour, he'll hit
town on December 20 -- the first day of
Hanukkah.

The mere thought of his upcoming visit
raises the ire of Sara Salzman, an
Aurora woman who routinely confronts
Holocaust deniers in Internet chat rooms
and who sits on the board of the Holocaust
History Project. "I don't want to prevent
him from coming," she says. "I just want
to make sure people know who he is." And
where he is, since the location of
Irving's talk has yet to be set.

In the meantime, Salzman has launched a
one-woman crusade to make his trip to
Colorado as unwelcoming as possible. Once
she determines where he'll be speaking,
she hopes to round up a group of people to
protest and hand out pamphlets describing
his views. "This isn't a question of
whether he has a right to say what he
wants to say," Salzman explains. "But I'd
like to make his visit a very unpleasant
one."